Dear Reader Domistic Violence is common each and every societies in the world. Developing countries like Bangladesh the social custums are different because the conservation in Pattarns. So , it is difficult to measure the…
This year, NACCRAN marked the DAC with the Human Right Commission with the theme Accelerating our collective efforts to end child marriage in Africa. The event started at 11:00am with the national anthem and an opening…
I had an arranged marriage. 21 years later, I realize I'd actually offered my neck to be slipped into a noose by the most twisted family in India. I wanted a kind man and a normal, happy life, nothing out of the ordinary in…
A girl was raped in a vehicle by five men few days back. When she went to the police station near her, she was asked to go to another police station. Poor girl had to go to three police stations before she could finally…
BY ALIYA BASHIR A Kashmiri woman has worked to increase the literacy rate of women and raise girls’ participation in education in her neighborhood despite fierce opposition from local men. Over the past 27 years, she has…
A Non-White Female in South Africa I was born and raised in South Africa, discriminated against as a “non-white”. I left the country as a young woman to accept a scholarship to study in the USA. For over 20 years now, I’ve…
Saiqa is 30 years old and has been married for fifteen years. Her husband used to ask her every day and night to show her love for him. Each time he would ask her to imagine that he was having sex with her sisters and had…
A few days before one of our students who was going back home from the school, was harassed by a few boys, this was not first time but she never told it to anybody according to her, she was scared that her father will kill…
My very own unique story of fighting against old beliefs started when I was only three years old. My mother wanted me to admit to the best schools of the town. Therefore, she was under the sun for four hours in a long line…
On one of my trips down south to Kerala, India last year, I heard a story that is sadly not unique. A woman working at a small organization as a cook and housekeeper came up to my mother to invite her to her daughter’s…
Some of street boys attached her in the bus stand. We was passing from he when we saw her, she was crying. We took pictrue and without late taken action. We sent the victim hospital for treetment. We find out the criminal…
The person name is Tania from Rupganj, Narayanganj, Bangladesh. She is working with us for human rights and news paper. She got information that in her area some people sales drugs. She let us know that metter. Our team went…
You might feel uncomfortable with the title statement but trust me this is what my culture , my society and my community taught me . The reason behind is the fear of shame of my family! The fear is all about being boycott…
Voilence against women Violence against women is a worldwide yet still hidden problem. Freedom from the threat of harassment, battering, and sexual assault is a concept that most of us have a hard time imagining because…
Thank you World Pulse for giving us this Opportnity to meet each other. We are very proud and honored to share this news with our family at the World Pulse that we are going to launch breaking the Silence Campaign -2015 from…
Munni is a 13 years old adolescent girl, lives in a remotest island area in Madaripur. She is a student of class seven and preparing her for next Junior School Certificate exam. Recently her parents tried to marry off her to…
Rajasthan is recognized as the ‘Land of Kings’ for its regal past of palaces and princely states. Located in India’s west-central interior, the state is home to over about 68 million people, almost 50% of whom are under the…
I'm delighted to share that a few thousand women, children, gender minorities, youth and men united under the Karnataka Rajya Mahila Dourjanya Virodhi Okkuta (Karnataka State Forum Against Atrocities on Women) celebrated…
Alike the millions of women across the world , many restrain themselves within the four walled structures,living in oblivion about the world around and the changing surroundings. Their exposure to the world lies in the…
"Lying along a pool of crimson liquid that draped her body like a Sari, the woman lay naked, except for the firy eyes to speak on the bright daylight that exuded from her tangled hair and sealed the convulsions on her lips…
Hello beautiful people! I am thrilled to announce the release, coinciding with International Women's Day, of the anthology, "Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan." The book features my new…
O Kasturi! Your song Captured me, Your smile -- Enraptured me. Who are they That defined your beauty But missed your dignity? Be strong forever Dear sister For you, your mother Your boys and others. NOTE: Kasturi is a…
